League Members 1894-1900
- Detroit Tigers (only WL charter member in its original city)
- Sioux City Cornhuskers → St. Paul Saints, 1895 → Chicago White Stockings, 1900 (renamed Chicago White Sox, 1903)
- Milwaukee Brewers → St. Louis Browns, 1902 → Baltimore Orioles, 1954
- Grand Rapids Rustlers → Cleveland Blues, 1900 (renamed Cleveland Broncos, 1902, Cleveland Naps, 1903, and Cleveland Indians, 1915)
- Had transferred to St. Joseph, Missouri and Omaha, Nebraska in 1898 before returning to Michigan in 1899.
- Kansas City Blues → Washington Senators, 1900 → Minnesota Twins, 1961
- Toledo White Stockings → Columbus Buckeyes, 1896 → replaced by Buffalo, 1899
- Buffalo Bisons, 1899 → dropped for newly organized Boston Red Sox, 1901
- Minneapolis Millers → dropped 1901
- Indianapolis Indians → dropped 1901
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